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Originally posted by Cory
So when one of y'all chops your arm/finger/whatever off because you didnt have someone there teaching you how to do stuff right, will you be so proud of that? (yeah, it probably wont happen, but this is a parallel line of reasoning to the "Making mistakes on my own will be good for me in the long run" thought)
Cory
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Can we get over this argument? 100% student built doesn't mean that noone else was there to help. It just means the students do the actual work. We do a fall competition called OCCRA, where the robots have to be 100% student built, but that doesn't mean everything's a disaster waiting to happen. Students can learn how to do something, then do it themselves. In my mind, that's the best way. They learn from the teachers/engineers, but they still get the personal, firsthand experience that is absolutely priceless.
I really do think we need to get over this argument. The last 10 posts or so have been "We don't have any engineers and we're better than you" followed by "Well, you're doing it all wrong then." There will always be differences in every team's methods. Let's not criticize people and tell them they're either missing the point, or what have you, just because they do something differently than you do.